links for 2006-08-31

Course: Molecular Science demo area
Moodle playspace for programme-based online student support.
(tags: moodle ou programmes)

Course: Psychology demo area
Moodle playspace for programme-based online student support.
(tags: ou moodle programmes)

Stopdesign - wtf?
quite nice design actually. im a big fan of huge text.
(tags: webdesign)

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Published on August 31, 2006

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Programmes in Moodle

In an effort to try and integrate with existing OU systems, I’ve just created two new moodle playspaces for our two experimental programme based websites. You might be able to see them here:

http://learn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1764 (Molecular Science)
http://learn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1763 (Psychology)

Over the next few days I hope to familiarise myself with this Virtual Learning Environment and see how far I [...]

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Published on August 30, 2006

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links for 2006-08-30

Flow: A money manager for freelancers and small businesses
Mark Boulton’s exciting new web app!
(tags: webdesign business)

XNJB - organise your jukebox zen on a mac
(tags: mac creative jukebox zen software)

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links for 2006-08-26

File Permissions in Ubuntu
how to get in as root and edit the fstab file.
(tags: ubuntu linux tutorials)

Online Avram: The portfolio of Avram Dumitrescu
nice pictures. drawings and that.
(tags: art artwork)

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Published on August 26, 2006

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links for 2006-08-25

Build your own PHP style sheet switcher
A great tutorial.
(tags: webdesign css tutorials)

W3C and the Overton window [dive into mark]
What’s going down at the w3c?
(tags: webdesign webstandards)

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Published on August 25, 2006

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Approved designs: Business

I like these designs. The photos are brought to the fore and nicely framed by the OU Turquoise info header.

Great, high-impact pic. What does this massive sat-dish do? Is it one those ones that searches for extra-terrestrial life?
Nice to see OU ORange get an outing.

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Published on August 24, 2006

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Some interesting patterns going on here. Something very appealing about OU Light Green. The colour cross-shapes on both these publications remind me of balsa-wood model aeroplanes!
I think this type of design can carry across to the web where we have a solid white bar at the top of each page. Having a solid OU colour [...]

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Familiar design. Sarah Crompton perhaps? Always was very partial to the patterns she used to create for us.

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New brand meets the olden days.
The juxtaposition works very well. I like both of these designs. I wonder which one they went with?

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Published on August 23, 2006

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links for 2006-08-23

Sliced and Diced Sandbags
How to automate text-wrap around irregular shaped images.
(tags: webdesign)

The importance of having an ‘about’ page
about pages are very important.
(tags: webdesign)

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Guy sorry to hear that. My thoughts are with you and your family. Take it easy.

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